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Many of the objections we see based on tenure are the same that I am sure will be made when we debate the separate issue of an age limit. When the noble Lord, Lord Dubs—who has been here for 31 years—speaks about child refugees, we are all humbled to remember that he came to this country as a child himself on the Kindertransport. When the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig of Radley, who has been here for 34 years, speaks on defence matters, he does so not just as a former marshal of the Royal Air Force of 40 years’ distinguished service in uniform, but as someone who is almost as old as the RAF itself—there are only 11 years in it. The noble Lord, Lord Desai, recalled my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay of Clashfern, from whom we got 43 years of very distinguished and much-respected service in your Lordships’ House.